How did Labor members vote on education?

Across the 13 divisions on whether a bill should proceed or pass, Labor members cast 618 votes matching "More education funding" and 0 matching "Current levels sufficient". These are counts of individual votes, not a statement of party policy.

How did Liberal members vote on education?

Across the 13 divisions on whether a bill should proceed or pass, Liberal members cast 7 votes matching "More education funding" and 328 matching "Current levels sufficient". These are counts of individual votes, not a statement of party policy.

How did Greens members vote on education?

Across the 13 divisions on whether a bill should proceed or pass, Greens members cast 83 votes matching "More education funding" and 0 matching "Current levels sufficient". These are counts of individual votes, not a statement of party policy.

Where does Verity's record on education come from?

Division tallies and individual votes come from the official division record via TheyVoteForYou. Matching a division to this issue, and deciding which way a yes vote fell on it, is AI-assisted tagging, used only at or above 60% confidence. Verity does not characterise how anyone votes — it shows the votes and links to every division behind them.

Policy issue

How parliament voted on Education

Q: How did parliament vote on education?

Verity has matched 89 recorded divisions in the Australian federal parliament to Education, held between 26 October 2022 and 31 March 2026. Of those, 13 decided whether a bill should proceed or pass; the rest were procedural motions such as orders for the production of documents and limits on debate. Every division is listed on this page with its tally.

Verity has matched 89 recorded divisions to Education, held between 26 October 2022 and 31 March 2026. 13 of them decided whether a bill should proceed or pass. The other 76 were procedural — orders for the production of documents, limits on debate, and motions to put the question.

The question Verity tracks

Should government spending on education be increased?

A vote is counted as “More education funding” when it matched the direction tagged to that division, and “Current levels sufficient” when it went the other way — whichever way the motion itself was worded.

How each party voted

Across the 13 divisions that decided whether a bill should proceed or pass, 11 May 2023 – 30 March 2026. Procedural motions are excluded here because a government votes down opposition and crossbench motions as a bloc regardless of the policy, which tells you about the numbers on the floor rather than about the issue. The full tagged list is below.

Votes by party on divisions deciding whether a bill should proceed or pass, tagged to Education
Party	More education funding	Current levels sufficient	Divisions
Labor	618100%	00%	13
Liberal	72%	32898%	13
Greens	83100%	00%	11
Nationals	11%	7199%	13
Independent	5583%	1117%	13
One Nation	15%	1995%	11

Counts of individual votes cast by members of each party, not a statement of party policy. Parties with fewer than 20 votes on these divisions are not listed.

How individual members voted

Current members with at least 5 votes on these divisions. Members of the same party almost always vote together, so many share an identical record and the order between them means nothing — the counts and the total are what matter.

Most votes for “More education funding”

Tim AyresLabor · New South Wales7 of 7
Anthony ChisholmLabor · Queensland7 of 7
Dorinda CoxLabor · Western Australia7 of 7
Mehreen FaruqiGreens · New South Wales7 of 7
Sarah Hanson-YoungGreens · South Australia7 of 7
Sue LinesLabor · Western Australia7 of 7
Nick McKimGreens · Tasmania7 of 7
David PocockIndependent · Australian Capital Territory7 of 7

Most votes for “Current levels sufficient”

Ralph BabetUAP · Victoria6 of 7
Angie BellLiberal · Moncrieff6 of 6
Sam BirrellNationals · Nicholls6 of 6
Colin BoyceLiberal · Flynn6 of 6
Slade BrockmanLiberal · Western Australia6 of 6
Scott BuchholzLiberal · Wright6 of 6
Darren ChesterNationals · Gippsland6 of 6
Pat ConaghanNationals · Cowper6 of 6

Every division tagged to Education

89 divisions, newest first. Open any one to see how every member voted.

Division tallies and individual votes: the official division record via TheyVoteForYou. Matching a division to this issue, and which way a yes vote fell on it, is AI-assisted tagging used only at or above 60% confidence — 89 divisions clear that bar for Education. Counts on this page were computed when the page was last built from the live record. How every figure is computed · Report an error

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